>At 09:11 PM 12/14/98 -0500, you <Bobby Greer> wrote:
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>>I am going to Austin, TX for Christmas to be with my daughter's family.
>>Haven't been in Austin since I graduated there in 1965.
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>>                                                Bobby
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>
>You will find it has changed a good deal, for better or worse:
>        East 6th St. is no longer home of porn theaters, but is a slighly
>"bohemian" area of auditary & culinary pleasures;
>        Hattie's is no longer the pleasure palace at the end of S.
>Congress, in
>fact it is completely gone;
>        the Capitol & the Tower dominate less of the skyline, as more tall
>buildings have been raised;     the Tower is orange less often than 30 years
>ago;
>        the city where marijuana was once almost openly smoked, now has
>some of
>the toughest anti-smoking (tobacco) laws in Texas.
>
>It's still a fun city, one I enjoy visiting every 3 months when I go for
>meetings.
>
>
>                         Bob Hester
>                      Arlington, Texas

Bob,

        I know Austin's changed alot from my daughter and her husband. How are
you? Read anything by Molly Ivans, lately? What's Ann Richards up to now?

Bobby